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Submitted by ctv_en_2 on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 09:00
A suicide bomber killed 23 Iraqi recruits hours after they joined the army when he rammed a truck into their vehicle near Baghdad on July 8, in one of a wave of attacks that killed 250 people over the weekend.

The bloodiest attack came on July 7, when a truck packed with explosives covered with hay blew up in a crowded market in the northern town of Tuz Khurmato, killing 150 people and wounding 250.

 

The surge in bombings comes despite a major US-backed offensive that has focused largely on Baghdad and provinces around the capital.

 

US officials blame most big bombings on al Qaeda in Iraq, which they say is trying to trigger full-scale civil war between majority Shi'ites and minority Sunni Arabs.

 

The death toll made it the second deadliest insurgent bombing in Iraq since the US invasion in 2003. In March, a truck bomb killed 152 people in the northern town of Tal Afar.

 

Reuters

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